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re: Who in here started out as a Lefty, then became more right wing over time?
Posted on 6/29/26 at 10:01 am to Zap Rowsdower
Posted on 6/29/26 at 10:01 am to Zap Rowsdower
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Didn’t Shep, errr, I mean Toddy start seeing the light before he disappeared again?
100% he did.
Then…poof.
Perhaps his new found common sense allowed him to realize all of the good things that there are to life, and he is just playing catch up.
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Posted on 6/29/26 at 10:02 am to SallysHuman
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cured me of bi-
Posted on 6/29/26 at 10:11 am to stuntman
I started conservative, remained fiscally conservative, but more socially libertarian (not liberal) over time. Why should I give a shite what you do with yourself, as long as it's not forced in others?
Posted on 6/29/26 at 10:13 am to RollingwiththeTide
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If you are not a liberal when you are young then you have no heart. If you are not a conservative when you are old then you have no brain.
Guess my brain always outweighed my heart.
Posted on 6/29/26 at 10:13 am to SallysHuman
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Confession time... I wasn't registered in '08... begged my husband to vote
If it was that important to you, why didn’t you register to vote?
Posted on 6/29/26 at 10:14 am to stuntman
I have always been a political outlier, still am.
Posted on 6/29/26 at 10:15 am to stuntman
I was a republican, but after the 2020 fraud election I became an independent
Posted on 6/29/26 at 10:43 am to stuntman
Never was a lefty. I did vote for Clinton in '92, but that was more of a protest vote against Bush. He seemed like such a milquetoast President at the time.
Was always more a of an extremely right-wing libertarian who had neo-con parents and actively rebelled against the neo-con way of thinking.
Was always more a of an extremely right-wing libertarian who had neo-con parents and actively rebelled against the neo-con way of thinking.
Posted on 6/29/26 at 10:44 am to stuntman
Absolutely no one ever.
Posted on 6/29/26 at 10:46 am to stuntman
I read a great deal of history from all sources. That was my cure.
Posted on 6/29/26 at 11:17 am to WheyCheddar
Well, anecdotally, 4 of my close friends changed from Left to Right (way right, libertarians) over the past 15 years. I like to think I had a little bit to do with it because we would talk politics, economics, and history pretty often and I would tell them points of view they had never even considered. Eventually, it sunk in.
I think if they were dyed n the wool leftists, it wouldn't have made a difference, but they were what Breitbart called default cultural Libs.
I think if they were dyed n the wool leftists, it wouldn't have made a difference, but they were what Breitbart called default cultural Libs.
Posted on 6/29/26 at 11:34 am to 4cubbies
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If it was that important to you, why didn’t you register to vote?
I thought I was registered- turns out I’d been purged because I never voted before then.
I can’t say it was super important to me, I just thought hope and change sounded exciting at the time. I didn’t know jack about politics.
Posted on 6/29/26 at 11:34 am to RollingwiththeTide
Then I am a heartless mfer.
Posted on 6/29/26 at 12:18 pm to Zap Rowsdower
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Didn’t Shep, errr, I mean Toddy start seeing the light before he disappeared again?
I had forgotten all about the Shep angle.
Toddy posted for a bit afterwards, disappeared, came back briefly and then seems to have disappeared for good now. Considering his pro-Left vocality, his change when the Left started pushing their crap on his beloved Ole Miss was the final straw.
It was a monumental time in Poli Board history.
Posted on 6/29/26 at 12:35 pm to stuntman
I was 8 when I made the statement to my parents from the back seat of the car "Its not fair that pro baseball players make millions playing a game and my teacher doesn't get enough" (likely repeating a comment from my teacher) . My dad replied "Can your teacher hit a ball going 95 miles per hour over a wall 410 feet away? there are only a few people that can, and all the teams want them".
My first lesson in basic economics. Its not about fairness, its about scarcity in the market. My first Red pill
My first lesson in basic economics. Its not about fairness, its about scarcity in the market. My first Red pill
This post was edited on 6/29/26 at 4:46 pm
Posted on 6/29/26 at 12:55 pm to stuntman
I got solid conservative when a new magazine hit our libraries. It was called 'The National Review.'
Posted on 6/29/26 at 2:47 pm to TigerBaitOohHaHa
Love examples like that. Simple, to the point, eye opening.
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